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looking forward to seeing it as soon as you release.

I would vote for it to be released now. OS2008 users get the new version. I am currently not using Canola2 because of how it is handling the tags I've got. I hope that the update fixes enough of it to make it usable. I also need wma support to make it a viable candidate for me to adopt. 770 users get something they haven't had available to them, even if it is not perfect.

This will still be beta, correct? I see no issue with releasing with a known bug.

OS2008/N800

N800 w/os2008

I would love to see this released right now and more frequently in the future, it is still in beta so surely the more people using and testing it will result in more bugs being found and a better quality end product! Surely a Beta phase is used to test new features over a wide audience with frequent releases to take care of bugs (and/or feature requests) as and when they arise...

I for one would like to test out the new features and start using a more fully featured media player than the built in player - the built in does a good job of albums with multiple artists (and real player streams) while I wait on Canola to get updated.

It is important for love to be shown to all tablets (I also have a 770 running the latest HE but my primary table is an n800 with OS2008) but can you not set up the repository so that the chinook tree is up to date and the bora and greagle/mistral trees will be updated once the dbus bug has been ironed out.

However devices and technology move on and sometimes you need to upgrade or be left behind - to continually work on older technology just for the sake of the community can cost more man hours to ensure backward compatibility at the cost of new functionality/features... Remember the currently nokia supported 770 OS is OS2006, the HE version is not supported or endorsed by nokia!

I love my 770 but the n800 is so much better and was well worth the upgrade!

N770 Os2007he

I vote for now.

N800/OS2008

Hi,

I almost tend to forget that this is still beta indeed. Please focus your efforts on releasing now.

N800 with OS2008

Jer006

In reference to:
However devices and technology move on and sometimes you need to upgrade or be left behind

I agree, but please take into account that Nokia has released 3 devices in about 2yrs. The N770 was released November 2005, so lets say 2006, then they released 2 devices in 2007, each time they told you "this is the device you need to have". The've released these devices so close, that you have to assume that while they were selling you on how great one device was, they were already getting themselves set up to sell you something else again telling you the same story. The reason that we are in the predicament that we are in now is because Nokia obviously spent minimal time in getting it right so that even older devices could upgrade (sure I would expect to see a slowdown), but this is like buying a PC and not even being able to install the latest version of windows at all. We all know that you can install any version of windows that you want, but you may be slower with some versions. Nokia is not focusing on software operability, instead they are focusing on putting anything out there that they can sell. Nokia also promised that they were working on a version of OS2008 for the N770 - anybody hear anything about that lately?? That would solve this problem. Seems that the root is Nokia actually taking a vested interest in it's product and seeing it through.
Sorry to rant - but I'm angry at NOKIA. I think the people who take the time to ensure backwards compatability deserve a big THANK YOU, and Nokia should be paying you to do what they obviously forgot about.

I also vote for now.

N800 w/ OS2008

I have an n800 with OS2008

Hi Guys,

So we decided, tomorrow you get it. Working ot not the podcast. Actually the podcast issue doesn't help the more people test it, it's just there and it perfectly reproduceable, but indeed we need more bugs from the fixeds =)

So you will get it tomorrow, and we will be happy to receive a lot of bugs, but next week is carnival in Brazil, so be patience with the following update =) ( lol )

As promised, we are indeed going to publish our desired roadmap in the website, but I can already say something now :

For the next release, scheduled for the last week of february first weeks of march :

+ Lot's of bug fixes
+ Youtube plugin (streams video, search, featured, bookmark your favorite videos)
+ Last.fm plugin (Audioscrobble support)
+ Zooming on Image (under evaluation) but is in the plans
+ Podcast improvements
+ More file formats Supported

Also, but not promising the 2 biggest features in our opinions could be on this one, to start testing right away :

+ Upnp (Using Brisa)
+ Third Party Plugin Support + docs

But of course this is a "plan" and we are sharing because you all can influence the priorities, but this is of course based on the request x our current plans / resources.

We are now much faster than in Canola1 to implement those, and yes we do plan to release often as much as possible. The plan is to release at least monthly, due to the amount of testing needed today (3 devices, 2 or 3 software versions etc)

BR

Marcelo